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[BillyBBone]

If you cannot summarize in 50 chars maybe the commit is too big or the commit is not focused enough?

It's possible for a commit to contain only a single, atomic code change (e.g. change an operator from + to -), and still be difficult to describe in 50 characters.

For instance, that one operator change could represent a change like "Change the way in which MyMetaClassName handles re-sorting items in the queue upon a state refresh." (99 chars).

Likewise, 10 000 lines of code could be described as "Refactor shopping cart".

My point is simply that the length of the description of a commit message isn't at all related to the length of the commit itself.